Law Enforcement Cooperation Between United States and Mexico Leads to Mexican Takedown of Significant Human Smugglers

The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona recently announced that extensive bilateral cooperation between the United States and Mexico resulted in Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office, Fiscalía General de la República (FGR), conducting a significant enforcement operation last week to dismantle a prolific transnational human smuggling organization operating in Nogales, Sonora, along the U.S.-Mexico...

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Tucson Music Hall To Be Renamed After Linda Ronstadt

The Tucson Music Hall will soon have a new name in honor of a southern Arizona native Grammy-winning superstar. Mayor Regina Romero announced Friday that the music hall will so be named in honor of Linda Ronstadt. “Linda Ronstadt is a beloved daughter of Tucson. It is time to honor her legacy and her...

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ADOT to Open Public Comment For Tentative Five-Year Construction Program 

Several highways carrying significant passenger and freight traffic are targeted for expansion and improvement during the next five years as part of the proposed annual update to the Arizona Department of Transportation’s list of projects that will be available for public comment beginning Friday, March 18. The 2023-2027 Tentative Five-Year Transportation Facilities Construction Program...

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Law Enforcement Cooperation Between United States and Mexico Leads to Mexican Takedown of Significant Human Smugglers

The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona recently announced that extensive bilateral cooperation between the United States and Mexico resulted in Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office, Fiscalía General de la República (FGR), conducting a significant enforcement operation last week to dismantle a prolific transnational human smuggling organization operating in Nogales, Sonora, along the U.S.-Mexico...

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FBI Impersonator Guilty of Wire Fraud, Stalking

Last week, after a four–day trial, a federal jury found Ivan Isho, 44, of Peoria, Arizona, guilty of two counts of wire fraud, one count of false impersonation of a federal officer, and stalking, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to evidence presented at trial, in 2016 and 2017, Isho pretended to...

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Phoenix Mercury’s Brittney Griner Arrested in Russia with Vape Cartridges

News broke over the weekend that Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner was arrested in Russia in February after Russian Federal Customs Service found with vaping cartridges in her luggage. The vape cartridges in her carry-on luggage had cannabis oil reports said. Video has been released from the Russian Federal Customs Service shows Griner getting...

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Woman Who Won Arizona Lottery Indicted

Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Friday that the State Grand Jury has charged 50-year-old Barbara Kay White of Casa Grande with one count of Theft, one count of Fraudulent Schemes and Practices, and one count of Perjury, for falsely claiming she was eligible to receive a $191,107.00 prize from the Arizona Lottery in order to...

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Arizona Fugitive in Child Molestation Case Caught in Iowa

Silent Witness program helps capture Cottonwood fugitive in Iowa who has been on the run, charged with two counts of child molestation. Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that Austin Fiser, 26, resident from Cottonwood, allegedly engaged in sexual activity with an 11-year-old girl and a 9-year-old girl in Rimrock in October 2018. Fiser...

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Biden Announces Supreme Court Nominee Pick, Ketanji Brown Jackson

On Friday, President Joe Biden made history by announcing his intentions to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. President Biden will nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. She will replace retiring Associate Justice Stephen Breyer. 51-year-old Jackson’s nomination is historic. She is first Black woman to...

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Mesa High School Track Coach Arrested, Accused of Child Sex Crimes

On Tuesday, a part-time track coach at Mesa High School was arrested by Tempe police after he tried to pay a teen girl in exchange for sex. Angel Jesus Torres, 27, was arrested and booked into jail on one count each of child sex trafficking, furnishing harmful items to a minor and aggravated luring...

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